12 Dec 10

Every Tuesday and Thursday from September 18th - December 8th, seven teens in Chicago and six teens in New York worked with an international team of scientists to discover what it’s like to be a paleontologist and explore the environment and culture of Brazil. Through a series of inquiry based projects, teens used the latest in digital media technologies to research: fossil plants and animals from the late Permian and early Triassic; sedimentology and stratigraphy; and extinctions and climate change. The teens are used EOL pages to compare extant animals and plants to their fossil animals and plants, and to research the flora and fauna of Brazil. The final project for the teens was the creation of a virtual museum exhibits on their fossil plants and animals.